With his signature on the Voting Rights Act of 1965, President Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat from Texas, outlawed discriminatory election practices that had been adopted in many southern states including Texas. Now, almost half a century later, another Texan, Attorney General Greg Abbott, could find himself in a position to dismantle a key section of the historic act that he thinks is unfair.

For the past several weeks, a panel of federal judges in Washington, D.C., has been pondering what to do with Texas' 2011 voter identification law  one of the nation's strictest laws requiring voters to show one of a few forms of ID to cast ballots.

If Texas loses in federal court, as many observers believe is likely, Abbott will be in a position to challenge the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act  arguably the most significant provision in the law that says Texas and several other jurisdictions with discriminatory histories must get the blessing of the federal government before they make any changes to election laws.

When Abbott went to federal court over voter ID, he also made a challenge to Section 5. That issue was split off from the voter ID case, but Abbott could move forward with it if the judges deny preclearance to the voter ID law.

Such a move could be politically advantageous for Abbott, a Republican who is considering a run for governor in 2014.

The so-called preclearance provision is not fair because it forces Texas to endure a burden that other states are free of, Abbott said.

"There's no reason why Texas should be discriminated against," Abbott said in a recent interview.

Abbott said discrimination exists in states that aren't subject to Section 5 and cited places outside the South, such as Chicago, with its reputation for crooked Democratic politics, and Philadelphia, where accusations of voter intimidation in 2008 were lodged against baton-wielding members of the New Black Panther Party.

Originally, Section 5 was approved by Congress for a period of five years. It was part of the grander effort to battle discrimination in elections, such as poll taxes and literacy tests. Over the years, Section 5 was extended for short periods, but in 2006, members of Congress authorized it for 25 years.

Now the future of the historic provision appears uncertain. Shelby County, Ala., and Kinston, N.C., already are in line with Section 5 appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court; South Carolina and Florida also could join the fray.

It is impossible to predict, but it is conceivable that Texas could jump in the line to have its case heard before the high court.

But no matter how a Section 5 case gets to the Supreme Court, it appears that a majority of the justices agree with Abbott, said Richard Hasen, a professor of law and political science at the University of California, Irvine and author of a new book "The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown."

Justice Anthony Kennedy said in January during a hearing on Texas' redistricting case, which also had preclearance implications, that "Texas is at a tremendous disadvantage" because "Section 5 applies only to some states and not others." (The courts have not issued a final ruling on the maps, but the state has interim districts for the 2012 elections.)

Three years ago, Chief Justice John Roberts indicated that he, too, might be on Abbott's side.

"Things have changed in the South," Roberts wrote in a 2009 case that seemed to set up a fight over the Voting Rights Act. "Voter turnout and registration rates now approach parity. Blatantly discriminatory evasions of federal decrees are rare. And minority candidates hold office at unprecedented levels."

Roberts' words came in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 v. Holder  in which the court ruled that the water district could "bail out" of federal oversight when it wanted to change a polling place from a person's garage to a school.

Other conservative justices  including Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito  also have signaled that they would opine against Section 5.

Ian Vandewalker, a lawyer in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, which advocates for voting rights, said that if the justices ultimately find Section 5 unconstitutional, minorities would suffer because they more often lack valid ID, compared with whites.

"The greater effect would be all these jurisdictions would be able to change their laws in innumerable ways that would discriminate against minorities' ability to participate in the electoral process," Vandewalker said. "The Voting Rights Act is one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation."

Without Section 5's ability to require preclearance, civil rights groups would have a harder time fighting discrimination, he said.

Under the current law, Section 5 puts the burden on the state or locality to prove to the U.S. Department of Justice that it is not discriminating, rather than forcing the plaintiffs to try to prove it.

Abbott doesn't see it that way. He said Texas and other Section 5 states don't deserve to be presumed guilty of violations of the law.

And if Section 5 and preclearance are deemed unconstitutional, the effect would be minimal, Abbott said.

Even without preclearance, anyone still could file a lawsuit in an effort to undo any changes made to election laws, he said. Abbott pointed to Pennsylvania, where opponents of the state's voter ID law filed suit against its enactment. A judge ruled last week that the law can be put into place.

"All the protections of Voting Rights Act would still exist," Abbott said.

"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again." -- Democrat Senator Lyndon B. Johnson

Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act dates from 1965 and was supposed to sunset after five years. Congress keeps on re upping it as no member wants to be accused by the NAACP as being in favor of discrimination.

The law may have addressed discrimination in the South 47 years ago, but time has made this federal oversight unnecessary and unfair to those few states. Voting law should be uniform and fairly enforced throughout our 50 states, not used by AG Holder as a whip to stop voter ID.

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posted on 08/20/2012 7:40:22 AM PDT
by RicocheT
(Eat the rich only if you're certain it's your last meal)

You should note that the quote is from LBJ when he was serving as a Senator from TX, before his signing on with the JFK ticket for the 1960 election. There are several books out there that chronicle LBJ’s brand of TX politics that will likely astound you when considered from today’s PC times.

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posted on 08/20/2012 7:49:30 AM PDT
by T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)

After the recent court ruling in Pennsylvania upholding their voter ID law, the lead plaintiff in the case went down to the PennDot office, and got her voter ID card.

The MSM will not report this, but, this plaintiff was so interested in voting, that she went and got her voter ID card with minimal difficulty.

If the liberals put half as much energy into helping these voters get their ID cards, as they put into filing the lawsuits on the subject, the issue of poor/elderly, etc. voters not having proper ID would become a non-issue.

Your point, in quoting LBJ about these negroes, is...what? It isnt about race...

"I am opposed to that (civil rights)program. I have voted against the so-called poll tax repeal bill. I have voted against the so-called anti-lynching bill." -- Democrat U.S. Representative Lyndon Bains Johnson

“Such a move could be politically advantageous for Abbott, a Republican who is considering a run for governor in 2014.”

Hell yes! Defend Texas Abbott! Kick them dirty federal bureaucratic out! Reassert Texas’s equal standing with the other states, including our EQUAL right to make our own election laws on the same level as any and all other States!

Section 5 of the 1964 Voting Rights Act is an Abomination! An assault upon the rights of Texans and all other southerns not only because it represents Federal encroachment into voting law, but because it imposes a nonuniform standard. to some states but not all other states.

In short the section 5 of the 1965 “voting rights act” strips Texas of her equal standing with the other States.

"I think one man is just as good as another so long as he's not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a n*gger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America." --Democrat President Harry Truman

"I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years." -- Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson

"The only concession I might make to him(King Saud) is to give him the 60 million jews we have in the United States" -- Democrat President Franklin Roosevelt

"I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes." -- Democrat Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, 1961

"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again." -- Democrat Senator Lyndon B. Johnson (D., Texas), 1957

".....African-Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do. " -- Democrat President Clinton on Black Entertainment Television, November 2, 1994

"Some junior high n*gger kicked Steve's ass while he was trying to help his brothers out; junior high or sophomore in high school. Whatever it was, Steve had the n*gger down. However it was, it was Steve's fault. He had the n*gger down, he let him up. The n*gger blindsided him." -- Democrat Roger Clinton(brother of President Clinton)

"You'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva." -- Democrat Senator Fritz Hollings

"Is you their black-haired answer-mammy who be smart? Does they like how you shine their shoes, Condoleezza? Or the way you wash and park the whitey's cars?" -- Democrat Left-wing radio host Neil Rogers

Blacks and Hispanics are "too busy eating watermelons and tacos" to learn how to read and write." -- Democrat Mike Wallace, CBS News

"In the days of slavery, there were those slaves who lived on the plantation and [there] were those slaves that lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master ... exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture." -- Democrat Harry Belafonte

"Republicans bring out Colin Powell and J.C. Watts because they have no program, no policy. They have no love and no joy. They'd rather take pictures with black children than feed them." --Democrat strategist Donna Brazile, Al Gore's Campaign Manager for the 2000 election

"He's married to a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn't want to be black." -- Democrat California State Senator Diane Watson's on Ward Connerly's interracial marriage

"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds." -- Democrat Former Klansman and current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the "conscience of the Senate", in a letter written in 1944, after he quit the KKK.

"I am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state .... The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia .... It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state of the Union. Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan in the Realm of W. Va .... I hope that you will find it convenient to answer my letter in regards to future possibilities." -- Democrat Former Klansman and current US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the "conscience of the Senate", in a letter written in 1946, after he quit the KKK.

"These laws [segregation] are still constitutional and I promise you that until they are removed from the ordinance books of Birmingham and the statute books of Alabama, they will be enforced in Birmingham to the utmost of my ability and by all lawful means." -- Democrat Bull Connor (1957), Commissioner of Public Safety for Birmingham, Alabama

(On New York) "K*ketown." -- Democrat President Harry Truman in a personal letter

"Theres some people whove gone over the state and said, Well, George Wallace has talked too strong about segregation. Now let me ask you this: how in the name of common sense can you be too strong about it? Youre either for it or youre against it. Theres not any middle ground as I know of." -- Democrat Alabama Governor George Wallace (1959)

"The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He rose Germany up from the ashes." -- Democrat Louis Farrakhan (1984) who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002

"Now that nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under his holy and righteous name." -- Democrat Louis Farrakhan who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002, 1984

"Hymies" "Hymietown" -- Democrat Jesse Jackson's description of New York City while on the 1984 presidential campaign trail.

"I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health." -- Democrat Charles Barron, a New York city councilman at a reparations rally, 2002

"Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them." -- Democrat Mary Frances Berry, Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights

"The old white boys got taken fair and square." -- Democrat San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown after winning an election

"There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time." -- Democrat US Senator Robert Byrd, a man who is referred to by many Democrats as the "conscience of the Senate" in March of 2001

"The Medicaid system must have been developed by a white male slave owner. It pays for you to be pregnant and have a baby, but it won't pay for much family planning." -- Democrat Jocelyn Elders

"The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the lake of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us for 400 years." -- Democrat Louis Farrakhan who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002, City College audience in New York

"We have lost to the white racist press and to the racist reactionary Jewish misleaders." -- Democrat Congressman Gus Savage (D-Illinois) after his defeat 1992

"White folks was in caves while we was building empires... We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it." -- Democrat Al Sharpton in a 1994 speech at Kean College, NJ

"The white race is the cancer of human history." -- Democrat Susan Sontag

"Reparations are a really good way for white people to admit they're wrong." -- Democrat Zack Webb, University Of Kentucky NAACP

"Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we dont want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion." -- Democrat Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation." --Democrat Senator Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.), 2004

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African American [Barack Obama] who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy." -- Democrat Senator Joseph Biden Jr., (D., Del.), 2006-07

"I don't care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day. This city will be a majority African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be." -- Democrat Mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin

"I don't talk to you white motherf******. You bitch motherf****** in the white press. F*** you, you motherf***ing assh*** white devils." -- Democrat Congressman Gus Savage (former U.S. Representative from Chicago to a white member of the press)

If what was happening here [in the U.S.] was happening in South Africa, itd be called racist apartheid. If it was happening in Germany, wed call it Nazism. And in Italy, wed call it fascism. Here we call it conservatism.  Democrat Jesse Jackson

"We have lost to the white racist press and to the racist reactionary Jewish misleaders." -- Democrat Rep. Gus Savage after his defeat 1992

If you feel that you just got to mug somebody because of your hurt and your pain, go to River Oaks and mug you some good white folks. If youre angry that our brother is put to death, dont burn down your own community, give these white folks hell from the womb to the tomb.  Democrat community organizer Quanell X

Were giving relief to people that I deal with in my office every day now unfortunately. But because of the longevity of this recession, these are people and theyre not minorities and theyre not defective and theyre not all the things youd like to insinuate that these programs [are] about, these are average, good American people.  Democrat Rep. Paul Kanjorski(D-PA)

"A few years ago he (Obama) would be getting coffee for us" -- Democrat President Bill Clinton

I hate white people, all of them. Every last iota of a cracker, I hate him. We didnt come out here to play this game. Theres too much serious business going on in the black community to be out here sliding through South Street with white dirty cracker whore [ BLEEP ] on our arms. And we call ourselves black men with African garb on. What the hell is wrong with you, black man? You had a (unintelligible) with a white girl on your damn arm. You want freedom? You are going to have to kill some crackers. You might have to kill some of their babies.  Democrat Malik Zulu Shabazz(Black Panther)

We(african-americans) are sort of a mongrel people. I mean were all kinds of mixed up  Democrat President Barak Obama

The country is ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama..a light-skinned African American with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one  Democrat Senator Harry Reid (he later apologized)

I dont know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican, okay. Do I need to say more?  Democrat Senator Harry Reid

When you look at the way the (then-Republican-controlled) House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation. And you know what Im talkin about. -- Democrat Senator Hillary Clinton

I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street. -- Democrat director Spike Lee

If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house. -- Democrat Al Sharpton

"The laws in this city are clearly racist. All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist." -- Democrat Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice." -- Democrat Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican." -- Democrat Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"The contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather." -- Democrat Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate." -- Democrat Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl." -- Democrat Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"I am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?" -- Democrat Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?" -- Democrat Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then? WOULD IT!?!" -- Democrat Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

"I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man." -- Democrat Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC

All of you are white. Go to hell! --Democrat Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price

"We have a black president. This is free" --Democrat strategist Donna Brazile(after being caught stealing a blanket)

"Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks." --Democrat Congressman Alcee Hastings on Sarah Palin

"I heard from a very reliable source who saw a 25 foot deep crater under the levee breach. It may have been blown up to destroy the black part of town and keep the white part dry." --Democrat Louis Farrakhan on New Orleans flooding

"White people shouldn't be allowed to vote. It's for the good of the country and for those who're bitter for a reason and armed because they're scared." --Democrat Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Jonathan Valania

I dont care so much about the Italians, they are a lot of opera singers, but the Germans are different. They may be dangerous. --Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I desire to impress upon you as representatives of the real Anglo-Saxon sentiment that must and will control the destinies of the stars and stripes, that I want your counsel." --Democrat Senator, & Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black

"You had wetbacks from California that came in here for Cranston" --Democrat Senator & Governor Ernest Hollings(1984, after losing presidential straw poll to Alan Cranston)

"they got the Buckwheats" --Democrat anchorman Dan Rather(after being forced to cover a story on Gary Condit (D-CA))

"This guy, he was catapulted in on hope and change, what we hope the guy is. What the fu*k? Everything he's saying's on the teleprompter. I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up." --Democrat Governor Rod Blagojevich

"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman of any color, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept." --Democrat Congressman Geraldine Ferrarro

Im proud to be here with people who understand that its more than just sending an email to get you going. Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary --Democrat Rep. Mike Capuano (D-Ma.) speaking to union supporters

So, besides being evil and immoral and unethical, theyre also stupid. --Democrat Joy Behar on Republicans

Despite what some among us would like to believe it is not because of our creative ideas; it is not because of the merit of our positions; it is not because we care about children; More.. and it is not because we have a vision of a great public school for every child. The NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power. --Democrat Bob Chanin, General Counsel to the National Education Association

I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen --Democrat Congressman Sheila Jackson Lee

Well, because the Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation. They gave them the perfect excuse to denounce all Arabs. Its a racist sort of thing, really racist  you know, picking out these 19 or 20 terrorists  they were terrorists  and saying all the Arabs are like them.  Democrat Senator James Abourezk on Hizbullah TV

When I see a stroller now, I see it as someone who evicted a person with AIDS, right or wrong.  Democrat Brian Basinger, president of the Harvey Milk Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transsexual Democratic Club on the horror of having to live near heterosexual families in San Francisco.

A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. Suck it, Jesus, this award is my god now!  Democrat Kathy Griffin

Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda  worse for our society. Its as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.  Democrat Keith Olbermann

I hear about Tony Snow and say to myself, well, stand up every day, lie to the American people at the behest of your dictator-esque boss and well, how could a cancer NOT grow in you. Work for Fox News, spinning the truth in to a billion knots and how can your gut not rot? I know, its terrible. I admit it..  Democrat Charles Karel Bouley at The Huffington Post\

When doctors pronounced the Rev. Jerry Laymon Falwell Sr. dead at 12:40 p.m. EST Tuesday .my first thoughts were not of what to say or write. In fact, my very first thought upon hearing of the Rev. Falwells passing was: Good. And I didnt mean good in a oh-good-hes-gone-home-to-be-with-the-Lord kind of way. I meant good as in Ding-dong, the witch is dead.  Democrat Cathleen Falsani

You dont have money to fund the war or children, but youre going to spend it to blow up innocent people. If we could get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the presidents amusement.  Democrat Congressman Pete Stark

Over time, however, the endless war in Iraq began to play a role in natural selection. Only idiots signed up; only idiots died. Back home, the average I.Q. soared.  Democrat Ted Rall

"(News of killings is) not good for us, but it also keeps the New Orleans brand out there, and it keeps people thinking about our needs and what we need to bring this community back." -- Democrat Mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, explains the upside of murders in his city

"Is there such a thing as a man-made stroke? In other words, did someone do this to (Democratic Senator Tim Johnson)? ...I know what this [Republican] party is capable of." -- Democrat Joy Behar on The View

"I don't know what it's going to take for people to really wake up and understand that they [the Bush administration] are liars and they are murderers." -- Democrat Joy Behar

I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet" -- Socialist President Hugo Chavez

"While the rest of the country waves the flag of Americana, we understand we are not part of that. We don't owe America anything - America owes us." --Democrat Al The Rev Sharpton

When I see an American flag flying, it's a joke. -- Democrat Robert Altman

Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win! -- Democrat Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders

You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest -- Democrat President Barack Obama

The President wants to talk about a terrorist named bin Laden. I dont want to talk about bin Laden. I want to talk about a terrorist called Christopher Columbus. I want to talk about a terrorist called George Washington. I want to talk about a terrorist called Rudy Giuliani. The real terrorists have always been the United Snakes of America.  Democrat Malik Zulu Shabazz

America has been killing people on this continent since it was started. This country is not worth dying for... -- Democrat Cindy Sheehan

Americans: Are not a model for the world and have a tragic history. Also, were hardwired not to always think clearly when were scared, and, more recently, we have gotten a little soft and lost our competitive edge. Democrat President Barak Obama

Bankers: Fat cats Democrat President Barak Obama

Border enforcement: Its overzealous adherents want alligators and moats on the border and would arrest children on their way to get ice cream. Democrat President Barak Obama

Corporate-jet owners: Are you willing to compromise your kids safety so some corporate-jet owner can get a tax break? Democrat President Barak Obama

Democratic base: Must shake off this lethargy. People need to buck up . . . if people now want to take their ball and go home, that tells me folks werent serious in the first place. Democrat President Barak Obama

Doctors: Needlessly chop off the limbs of diabetics and take out tonsils to increase their own profits Democrat President Barak Obama

Donald Trump: A carnival barker Democrat President Barak Obama

Grandmother: Typical white person Democrat President Barak Obama

Las Vegas: Where you are likely to blow a bunch of cash when youre trying to save for college Democrat President Barak Obama

Millionaires: They dont pay their fair share and are synonymous with those who have 1,000 times more. Democrat President Barak Obama

Rural Pennsylvanians: They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who arent like them or anti-immigrant sentiment. Democrat President Barak Obama

Sarah Palin: You can put lipstick on a pig. Its still a pig. Democrat President Barak Obama

Special Olympics: Comparable to the presidents dismal bowling scores Democrat President Barak Obama

Super Bowl: Where you go on the taxpayers dime Democrat President Barak Obama

Supreme Court: Would open the floodgates for special interests Democrat President Barak Obama

Supreme Court Justice Thomas: I would not have nominated Clarence Thomas. I dont think that he, I dont think that he was a strong enough jurist or legal thinker at the time for that elevation. Democrat President Barak Obama

Were the black chicken-friers of the universe. We gonna go buy some Colonel Sanders chicken. Then the Chinamen comin and [inaudible]. . . . Koreans sell us watermelons. We eat watermelons all our lives. But they gonna come cut it up, put it in a bucket with a rubber band around it, and we gonna buy it like its somethin and we didnt know what it was. Democrat Al the Rev Sharpton

We can have a really great world. We can have a world that was at peace and was prosperous and efficient and just I just think, wow. I think were really in that cosmic space where we can actually command our group will to make something change very quickly. I think were just so on the verge of that. I just like to encourage people to jump off, man. Jump off and start thinking clearly. Leftist candidate Roseanne Barr

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